Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Petersburg, Virginia, was taken from his cell by a mob early on the morning of November 23, 1889, and lynched. His name cannot be read in the newspaper account, which is an OCR-garbled report in the Tombstone Daily Epitaph. The account describes the mob taking him from the jail but does not say how the jailer or sheriff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.